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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 14, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. A no. A set. Pleasant Iowa ski do evening april la. I i these Days my Corge e. Sokolsky the first Hundred Days it is customary in tills country where a in instr at ions can be changed every four years to give an incoming president an Opportunity to get started without too much opposition. Generally he appoints to his Cabinet whomever he chooses. He is Given time to acquaint himself with Public affaire the american people generally assuming that a president needs to learn the intimacies of his Job. President John Kennedy has been treated better than most presidents have been by the press. By Congress and by the opposition party the Republican party. This is undoubtedly due to his charming personality his Swift approach to Hie problems which he faces the delightful characters of his wife and daughter to the Relief from the cold and Distant personality which president Eisenhower Chase to present to his people. Now the first too Days Are reaching their close. Jack Kennedy is now a full fledged president standing on hts own to be criticized and even attacked As is customary in our country. I think president Kennedy will have a longer period of respite than most presidents have had because the times Are so perilous and Many of the issues Are hardly understood by the american people. Cheers for spaceman new faculty members named at Iowa Wesleyan Faupel redistricting flan file tax Lien places Henry with Jefferson 1 against estate at Knoxville that population figure in the slate s 50 senatorial districts. Sen. Clifford Vance a it getting set president Kennedy and West Germany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer get set for future crises in one of their Whit House conference. Will begin re Toksu in postal rate Roost asked the reverend Artilur p. Beck will begin his Rector ship of St. Michael s episcopal Church w. La services on sunday morning a 16th. The vestry and Guild will hold a pariah comm Unity reception for father but a scr and hts wife sunday evening in the Parish Hall from 7 30-9 . How much do most of us really understand of the piling up of issues in the Congo in Laos in South Vietnam in peking in Moscow More and More our j Seminary in new people Are becoming conscious of j has had business the fact that some time in the past events have occurred and agreements have been made which Are damaging to the United states. Young men and women who Are now coming of age. Wonder Why they arc being burdened by the errors of their elders. They do not remember Roosevelt or much about Truman. They Are not mystified by the amazing statesmen of world War it. The great Churchill the mysterious Stalin the wicked Hitler. The Gross Mussolini. These Are names like Julius Caesar or Napoleon or even Genghis Kahn. They Sec these names in books but they do not feel the impress of their personalities. Thev Are not astounded by the father but Citer has been at Chi. I the Church Sturgeon Bay since 1956. He a graduate of Lawrence College Appleton wis., and the general theologic.t�?T. York City. H experience w the Pillsbury Mills and served in the United states army with the rank of sergeant in the military police father and mrs Becker have one ten months old son Washington a up the administration asked Congress today to increase postal rates including a one cent boast in first class regular and air mail letters and Post cards. The move was aimed at trimming the a Tai deficit of $741 million. Postmaster general j. Edward Day submitted a program which follows very closely the recommendations of the Eisenhower and Iowa Wesleyan College has an i m timed the appointment of two j new members of the music faculty. A they Are or. And mrs. Edward Pease now of Taylor University in Indiana. Or. Pease will teach French Horn land Bra. Instruments mrs. Pease. Whose professional name is Betty Jane Kuhlman Pease will teach strings in the place of key Lor Noland who is returning to concert work. Both of the new faculty members have studied abroad under Ful inv 1 a a a c1, Evan i Bright Grants. This work was at a it Lik d his previous state line University of Freiburg in Ger i Many. Or Pease earned the . De-1 Grec Des Moines up i the. Quot i was a a redistricting comma a and of lure the a Rieuo coun Nutter yielded to a bluntly worded j to delegation to out attorney general s opinion thin. Day Ard b Gan searching for reapportionment plan to Des Mot its passage in hic i Bigorne tax Lien Timea. Or won a lower chamber but the ornate to cled Villi equal / 11 Day tacked on a minor Amend t county recorder a up a Federal for $731,188 has Polk and Marion against the Date Moscow goes into orbit for Gagarin no in ending it Back to Tho lower dumber tor concurrence tic amendment would make car plea ant. Committee chairman Law latin tfx two Wanebo county Moscow a up a spaceman Yuri Gagarin returned Home today and Moscow went into orbit. Of Eldon i j. Job. Knoxville banker an or Oramous crowd screamed who committed suicide following Ami cheered As the 27-year-old air discovery of a $700,000 shortage i for attention would of focused first on a realignment of District boundaries drafted by Wayne Faupel. Assistant code editor. During a 40-minute afternoon at Indiana University having first received the M de. A Grec at Illinois Wesleyan preceded by the tips. Degree from Western lined his ments that the current legislature has a a Clear duty to realign the senatorial districts to provide f nearly equal population in i Thunder paupers plan the realign mint. Of counties would result in two incumbent senators being in Livols University. He is a native of cab three proposed districts. Gilman 111. His wife has almost completed the work for a i it Oetlor of music degree from Indiana University. Her other degrees were b. M. From Willamette University and m m ministration. President Kennedy f i Indiana University. Her birth announced m his slate of the Union message he would seek the increase. If approved by Congress first class letters would go from four to five cents an air mail letters would be increased from seven to eight cents an ounce place was Kelso Wash both have taught at Taylor University pan american College Edinburg texans. As graduate assistants at Indiana University. In addition mrs. Pease taught at Mississippi Southern College Hattiesburg miss. Soc served As con or. Kapp to i return to reaching or. John r Kapp registrar at Iowa Wesleyan for eight years will teach full time in the history and political science departments beginning in september. As an administrative officer or. Kapp did not have tenure. As a full time faculty member he will be Able atom bomb or the Hydrogen bomb to enjoy this privilege and is Mak Many of them have studied Suffi my the change for this reason Dent science to know All about a another Iowa Wesleyan faculty such toys. They take things in member to be granted tenure is their stride that we elders never miss Nancy Graff am who Heads the heard about. They read symbols training of elementary education which Are gibberish to us. The a majors. Ture of their education has 1 promotions announced by or. Changed. Pm w. Pixler academic Dean and 0 0 0 vice president were those of or. That de John w. Carson and or. Emma J Post cards would go up from three cart mistress of the Indiana uni cents to four and air mail Post symphony orchestra and cards would be hiked from five0 the Taylor Marion civic in one Faupel would put a Panage Davis and Buren counties into one District. Sen. Joe Wilson. A uni Oriville now represents App noose and Davis counties while sen. Dewey Phelps r a preventatives continue to hold Offu until the end of their present term is. 19fi2. At the 1962 faction. Wapello county will Fleet Only one House member and county will name two. They will begin their ski Vita in the 1963 general Assembly. The 108-mrmber Hou o is made no of Ore representative from each of the 99 or unties with one additional member from each of the 9 most. Populous counties until the i960 , Wapello county held the 9th , but in tis last to years its population j was exceeded by . Vance Aid the senatorial net my plan draft d by Faupel j would provide 17 one county districts instead of the present 15. I officials Annovi de by i e today. Tile Lien claims that Job and his widow owe taxes for the years 1954 through 1959. However internal Revenue service spokesmen said the alleged income involved was Quot not necessarily entirely due to the embezzlement Quot plane major stepped off at Vnuk ovo Airport. Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev who landed at the Airport Only Rnic us before went Forward and gave a hug Bear hug to the first Man to orbit the Earth and exp sri enee an extended period of weightlessness. Khrushchev had Tim Federal internal Revenue cd Shoft his Black to be on hand sea vacation service listed the following tax amounts which it claims from tile o Job estate which is being and two million ministered by the Iowa pcs Moines were massed National Bank rout 1 to the roaring muscovites along the 12-Rnlie City and in red to six cents each. Congress walked last year at rate increase proposals. Days proposal would also boost mail rates for magazines newspapers advertising circulars and Small parcels. By in phony. Or. Pease has had Public school experience in my. In at Bardolph a in. He also was assistant band director and theory teacher for the . A Force. I both have done i Cert work. Hillsboro represent s Buren j Mahaska and Clayton counties and adjoining Jefferson county j which arc now single county Dis off Mson county would be pain do riots. Would to combined with1 with Henry county. Washington j Ether adjoining counties to form county now paired with Henry two county districts would be paired with Louisa. Johnson Story Cerro Gordo and Webster counties would he added to rho hoist Aborn us1 be reap-1 Tho list of one county District-., portioned in accordance with the. Others ate Polk Marshall 1960 census but Only two counties j Wapello Loc. Des Moines Scott chamber j Clinton Dubuque Black Hawk,1 the j Woodbury Ottaw Ottamie and county represent attorn to Linn. $129500 for 1954 $125,620 for Square to Hail As a conquering 1955 $121,647 for 1956 $118,820 for Boro the first Man to soar into 1957 $115,524 for 1958, and $112,075 space for 1959 _ Gagarin stood for a moment at Tho u p of the Steps of the Ilyushin 18 Airliner looking around a smilingly. He wore the uniform of a soviet air Force officer with a heavy Large c uban department stores destroyed by fires As the enters thundered Are affect re. Tile lower has before it a Bill to increase extensive con degrees to two Winfield youths would permit Aid above Gaa a it i i Jiuu Ruiru Mccoss the Field he stepped alone Dow the step and marched smartly Havana a up a two of across the apron toward a review cubans biggest department stores in my Static in front of the terminal cities nearly 500 Miles apart Lav i building. In ruins today destroyed by fires he glanced occasionally to the in a coordinated Campaign of a left Abd right As he walked up dotage against Premier Fidel Cas to where Khrushchev and other to. Soviet leaders stood applauding a $7 million fire apparently him. Started by dropping phosphor a it. O o 0 into the air conditioning system. The crowd fell silent As he totally destroyed the al in Cantor wont up to a microphone and re department store in Havana cd ported to Khrushchev that his three killed in separate mishaps Council Bluffs Iowa up a William b. Of Connell. 24, Council Bluffs was killed instantly Early today when the speeding car in which he was Riding smashed Headon into another car Here. Accept Cut in budget Council Bluffs Iowa cited a tile a Iowa Farmers degree was awarded to 195 outstanding mein us Moines a Bens of the future Farmers of Psoas receiving old America at the groups state con a a cation Here today. Gary John son and James Hobs of Winfield were among those receiving de Grees a s largest. T flames raced i at the same time through Santiago a Quot Mission has been successfully accomplished for the glory of the and the communist Des Moines up. A tile Iowa Board of regents reluctantly dropped its demand for a $50 Mil i Jirred and in poor condition at lion Linual budget today and voted do Thev know More pends upon what one Means by the word. Know and that brings us Back to president Jack Kennedy he is closer to the younger generations than almost any president has been. Tins gives him an enormous advantage Over a Man like Eisenhower who was an elderly gentleman of Hie generation of world War ii. Kennedy is current. Each generation approaches identical problems differently and Kennedy approaches current problems in Claser consonance to his own generation his is bound to of a very different approach from that of either Eisenhower or Truman. Titus some of Kennedy a attitudes Are shocking to an older generation but that does not Matte what is significant Are the results of his thinking and his actions the Kennedy Macmillan conferences could not have been anything Luce the Roosevelt Churchill conferences say at Quebec. Roosevelt tended to be a flatterer Churchill was a Man Selling the glories of the British Empire for full american support. Churchill did an amazingly Good Job for his country which will Ever Honor him for his Success. Jack Kennedy is not Likely Ever to make such a Deal As Roosevelt made at Teheran Jack Kennedy will probably develop into a nationalist As he grows in the presidency. Pro Layman both from associate Fassoth to full professor. Prof. Dick Millspaugh who is on leave of absence for doctoral study was granted Extension of leave for another year. A local Hospital were three other persons Floyd e. Cla usum 22, and Richard g. Richardson 22, both of Council Bluffs and Donald w. Knapp 34. Omaha. Police said Richardson was drive to a go along Quot with a nearly $44 million appropriation recommended by a joint House and Senate subcommittee. The Board which had steadfastly struck to its i quest for a budget the degree is the highest degree conferred on members by the state organization. It May be awarded to no More than two per cent of the 9,759 Active Fra members in the state. Biggest department store. La soviet Union j commercial leaving it a charred party a up a per a Shell. As he finished Gagarin a hand age assistance shred crowds cheered As the snapped from Salute to his Side from the state will be Able to get flames brought Down the Walls of a Khrushchev who had been stand s apply ment Ary Aid from other j nationalized al Encanto a so i is solemnly stepped Forward sources under a Bill passed. 44-0,1 Story building filling three quarters a bus Grin and embraced the by the Iowa Senate thursday. Of a Havana Block. At present persons receiving such i a third fire in the gov emment assistance from relatives friends j owned National paper factory was or associations have their state i discovered and put out before it pensions reduced by that spread. Damage was Esti mated at about $900. O o a the crashing Volley from a firing squad at the grim Cabana flight around the we orld Pace Man in a vast hug kissing him on both Cheeks. The crowd went wild. A brass band played. Flags whipped in tile stiff Breeze under three giant portraits of Lenin Khrushchev and cosmonaut Gagarin. Gagarin made his 108 minute say tractor Driver saw Gagarin Parachute Down James r. Kough joins Mhz staff Osth 1 James r. Kough a native Waterloo has recently joined staff at the it pleasant men to. Health As coordinator of the rehabilitation therapy department or. Kough has had extensive work in the Field of mental health followup service in the u. S Navy for three years during world War la he received a b. S degree from the University of Minnesota in 1950. Big an eastbound ear at a High rate 549,731,196 after gov. Norman a. Of Speed estimated by witnesses at Eric called for a cutback to $40 Mil-60 to too Miles per hour. Lion. Decided it was Wiser to Settle offic us said the Richardson our Fzia Compromise figure missed a curve and crashed into voted 7-2. To express its will tiie car driven by Knapp. Clausen 1 in Gnoss to go along with the sub and of Connell were passengers i committee s recommendation of the Richardson car. $43,820,703. Bakare of Tho Bill said it would not place a greater Load on Tho state old age assistance fund but would help pensioners by permit uni Ai inc grim Cabana night around the world in the Ting them to receive additional Aid. J fortress prison Here last midnight1 Pace ship Vostok wednesday. He a o a gave the governments reply to the underwent a medical checkup the Senate also approved 48-0. Anti Castro Campaign harsh re presumably near his Landing site a Bill to allow the governor to Pri Sals against the Premier s foes. J thursday. It was not announced Miter into interstate compact re Aberlardo a. Aguiar a us Protea where this was but the time an Saboteur caught with several Clee noun cod for his flight today 2 Trio detonators in his Possession hours and 22 minutes a indicated Miles to lating to juveniles sen. Lawrence Putney a glad Moscow tipi i tile official soviet Tai. News Agency said today that space Man Yurt Gagarin Brook Aid this would allow Iowa iwh3 this j car s 25th victim of tile he had come 750-850 returned to Earth by Parachute. I for example to parole a youngster tiring squads which have killed reach the capital. Erwin Floyd Iowa up i a blanda46, Rural Rudd was killed i psf tyls of i in to pickup truck Accident about tight Miles Northeast of Here thursday on a county gravel Road. A Tho ties said Brandau apparently lost control of the vehicle which crashed into a ditch. He was thrown from the truck and it crushed him police said. It did not make Clear whether a from the state training school at Moro than 6c0 cubans Garin left the space ship while it Eldora to a Minnesota Home if it to seized Power. Was still in the air or whether was to the youths advantage. Under present Law this would not be permitted. Since Cas tile entire Craft carrying the cosmonaut was landed by Parachute. School building i the mishap occurred just two since that time he has worked Miles from the spot where two of in the Minnesota mental Hospital j Blanda us children were killed in system with eight years at Sand August 1959, in an Accident involve Stone stat 4 Hospital which is a big a ear Brandau was driving sales Spital for adult mentally ill and alcoholics. He spent three years at j is i Merville Iowa up a the children s unit of the Hast a it Sun Quot Estherville Man was killed Ings state Hospital a Small Intel thursday night and another in sire treatment unit for emotional a Quot Quot Hen Hen speeding car disturbed children. Cashed into a Light pole. Robert Francis Lemma Star 20, on March 16. 1961, Fie received a who was driving was killed outright Mastel of education degree from As the Cai knocked Over the Utility further discussion and analysing of the it. Pleasant Community school District s building needs took place at the special meeting of the school Board thursday evening. The discussion in part entered on the effect of having the new High Way routing through East it pleasant As announced wednesday by Tho Highway com muss Ion. Also consideration was Given to the effect some of the building plans being made might have on the bus transportation of Rural pupils. Coffee hour special event Here during National Library week ship sinks after Rescue of Crew Gagarin said simply to the soviet leaders Quot i am Happy to report that the assignment of the party and government has been fulfilled. The flight has been successful. I ant feeling Well and am prepared to carry out any further Khrushchev playing the part of master of ceremonies introduced Gagarin around by saying a this Boston up a an old Liberty ship broken in half by a the week april 16 to 22. Has been a storm Sank in 15 fathoms of water is my colleague Suslov this is my designated As National Library from 9 30 toll a m., and from two today three hours of tit Ber 35-Man j colleague Mikoyan a week the purpose of which is to to five in the afternoon on wednes Crew was rescued far out in the dozens of Young russians heaped i Gulf of Maine. Bouquets of Flowers on Gagarin encourage Iii time Reading habits Day april 19. The Public is invited. And the use and support of libraries of All kinds by everyone. The goal is a a better read better informed America Quot which has become a Nec bouquets of Flowers the University of Minnesota. Or. Kough is married the father of to o children Ages to and 7. And they have purchased a Home at 700 South Pine in it pleasant. During the first too Days there have been Many excursions and alarms but it is too Early to see any results of All the activity. In times like these the course of events is never Swift although patience and reticence often become defeat. On the other hand we Are so close to a shooting War with the soviet Universal state that the president wants to be sure that should War come it Isle Lon s today without a verdict. I War by Choice not War by acc. Dent. This us one of president Ken the initiative and it needs to be Nedy s major problems As he is be taken from them. That will be Ling teased into starting a fight the task of the next Hundred Days several Heaters being offered him copyright. 1961. King features la Oike til. Russians it till hold Syndicate in. 1 jury still out Council Bluffs. Iowa up a the District court jury which will decide the Fate of accused murderer Charles Noel Brown 28. Passed its 15th hour of Deli Basra pole carried it 190 Lect. And struck two Trees according to police. Tho passenger Nicholas William Juhl 20, suffered serious leg injuries and was hospitalized. He was Home on it ave from tile army. J raise requirement for property damage report Des Moines up a persons involved in motor vehicle accidents resulting in less than $100 property state soil. Wilbur damage would not be required to confirm three appointments Des Moines up a the Low Senate thursday confirmed Throe appointment submitted by gov. Norman a. Erbe including one which will switch control of the. Board of regents to the Republican party after july i. At an afternoon executive session the Senate approved former c. Molison 58. Grinnell Republican for a six year for a Richer Fuller life year round read beaten bound Cissily. Only a wide variety of Reading can keep us abreast of what has let in. And Diat is and train the imagination to forge ahead into what might be in tile future. A the family who reads tog eth r. Grows so make it a Point to visit your Public Library next week. I you have never been before there will be in in be re of the Library staff who will glad especially people who usually take1 Crew 1c 441-loot Marine i whose solemn face finally broke a Quot Coffee break about that time. M reliant were hoisted aboard two into a Broad Grin. So plan to meet your friends theft j comic Rcd a vessels the Tanker is a a and enjoy the Friendly atmosphere �,s5� Raleigh and the British ship v hid you will find there. Orcas 1 81 u coding a night Long struggle it full cd tires Are just waiting for you to a a inst tire Sra. Find them. I inc crewmen on the Daru artilly Job rare Rived al Portland. Maine and told the quiet reaches of its several 01 heroic Rescue of one who had rooms j in boning sea and nearly fort Dodge Iowa up a drowned. 117-year-old boy was found Union the Dan a chief Steward. M. R. Scion and bound with about ten Charnock of Liverpool England feet of barbed wire in the Southeast said crewman Willie e. For exec 40, Section of town Here Norfolk va., saved the life of de night Ward f. Sweeney 34. Staten Island. The youth. Gary Moon regained with chosen i file an Accident report under a Bill term on the Board of regents bypassed by the Iowa Sinato thurs Celt Shockley Council Bluffs Cay. Democrat to a four year term on the measure approved 32-15. Tile Highway commission and Don raises tile property damage mini Ald . 43. Fairfield to a four invite to Fellowship friends t lint line tile shelves where every volume blooms with Beauty yielding untold dividends. For if a Book of fiction is your Goat. Tho authors of far Distant lands and ours have written lines to lift your very soul. Refreshing As a breath of springtime showers. Ii essays history biography claim your attention you will find them Here. Thursday n. Y. Will get phones in dorm rooms by assist you in becoming acquaint along with tomes of precious ported with the books in which you by. Might be most interested. That 1< and new a Coffee hour will be one of the year. Inspiration year on highlights at the pubic Library within these Walls Are treasures sponsored by the literature and i manifold drama department of Hie i. T More valuable than chests of Hoard Des Moines up students living in dormitories at Iowa a two state universities will have telephones in their rooms after All. Nip Iowa Board of regents today night. Tests and lil senses Long enough to Tell police four youths in an old White car jumped him while he was walking near his Home Here. They dragged him into the car beat him and dumped him where he was found. He could give no reason Why lie might have been singled out for the attack. Officials at mercy Hospital said today Moon was in fairly Good condition after spending a restless a rays were being mum for Accident reports from $50 Jear term on the non partisan soil pleasant woman s club Coffee willed Gold. To $100. Conservation committee. I be serv d in the Worthington room re affirmed its earlier decision to conducted today to determine the leave telephones in rooms at the extent of ills injuries. University of Iowa dormitories and he suffered gashes about the to install them at the new dorm wrists arms and Chest from the tory planned for Iowa state uni barbed wire but his fact was not Iva Harshbarger Virden varsity. The vote was 7-2. Badly Mark a officials said

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